New Jersey has adopted the Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A.
47:1A-5, which has as its general purpose making government records
more available to the public than they have been in the past. In certain
instances, the production of voluminous records, archived records,
or records in a format which is not the usual format maintained by
the municipality or other special circumstances would be costly and
time consuming. The New Jersey Open Public Records Act permits the
municipality to require the payment of fees, special service charges
and/or special charges as a prerequisite to the production of records
requiring extraordinary time and effort, special equipment or special
formatting.
The statutory fee schedule shall apply to routine requests under
the Open Public Records Act. The fees of N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5 are hereby
incorporated herein as such fees schedule presently exists or as such
fees might appear in future modifications or amendments of the statute.
At present time, fees under N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5 for routine copies
of municipal documents are:
Pages 1 through 10
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$0.75 per page
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Pages 11 through 20
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$0.50 per page
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All pages after 20
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$0.25 per page
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If fees for particular documents are set by statute to be amounts
other than those set forth here, those fees shall apply.
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The establishment of the position of deputy custodians of documents
are as follows:
E. Court Administrator.
However, all requests must be made directly to the Custodian
of Records, the City Clerk.
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Nothing in this section shall require the custodian or deputy
custodians of documents or any other municipal official to examine,
analyze, tabulate, or interpret documents which are subject to production
under the New Jersey Open Public Records Act.
The Mayor, Clerk or City Council (by resolution) may waive the
fees or other charges otherwise chargeable if the requestor of governmental
records is a governmental or educational entity.